Remember that there is only one month before testing. Here are the requirements: Know your terms. Know how to utilize your analogies. Without sounding conversational, make sure that your personality shines through. Don’t do the obvious, which means be willing to take risks. Go ahead, be funny, use unusual inferences, get your point across in an interesting way. You’re all good writers but to avoid the BBB, you’ll have to show that you march to the beat of a different drummer. If everyone else is writing about A, you’ll need to write about B, or better yet, Q. Warning: I’m not suggesting that you should be facetious or a wise%#@, I’m saying be clever, be funny, be YOU.

You should have plenty to bring with you to the essay. Sentences, indeed entire paragraphs, should be at your disposal. You should practice and establish a running essay in you heads. Commit your allusions to memory in a format that you just simply transcribe to your testing booklet. Remember, it’s all about the manipulation of information that you already know.

Know your history. You can circumvent the need to decipher some very difficult passages by understanding the times in which they were written. Think back to the article by Mary Wollstonecraft. Half of the questions could be answered by knowing that Wollstonecraft was a feminist. Never heard of her? Still shouldn't have mattered: ANY woman writing anything in the 18th Century was a feminist! That's not really knowledge, it's Manipulation. At face value, the multiple choice section is out of any of our leagues. The writings are difficult, the questions are vague, and yet if you learn to think it through, to use W5+H as a starting point, to eliminate bad answers and evaluate, you will do well.

You can do well. You will do well. This is merely three hours of your being ON, being in the zone, taking it to the next level. Like the Matrix, it's merely manipulation.